Arch is very high-maintenance. Try Debian 13, it just came out this week. Ubuntu is okay but it has a lot of crapware compared to Debian. If your Wi-Fi and GPU work on Debian you do not need Ubuntu.

I’m an experienced Linux desktop user of about 15 years and I switched from Arch to Debian and I don’t miss Arch. If you need bleeding-edge software you can use a combo of Nix, language package managers, and building from source. Arch doesn’t add much plus I frequently ran the wrong pacman command and soft-locked myself out of the OS. Debian doesn’t do that to me.

if you know you know

GLIBC

Debian because it’s like Ubuntu (one of the most popular distros, with tons of software targeting it) minus the Canonical stuff I don’t need. And newer Debians even have Wi-Fi out of the box

xfce or KDE because GNOME is just too far-out for me. They wanted to get rid of tray icons and stuff. They keep moving things around, seemingly for the sake of moving things around, or maybe to look more like phones. I don’t need my desktop to be a phone.

apt isn’t the greatest package manager but, there’s a lot to be said for popularity, and no matter how many times someone said “Don’t upgrade Arch the wrong way” I kept breaking my Arch install. Debian works because apt doesn’t let me accidentally break it. (I think I was doing the pacman equivalent of apt update and then apt install. I don’t know why the fuck that breaks a PM. The point of a PM is to keep yourself from breaking stuff. If I wanted broken shit I wouldn’t use the PM. On two occasions Arch also soft-bricked itself because I updated pacman into a state where it could no longer run. This seems like one of the simplest things a good PM should prevent. Whereas with apt, I’m not sure it’s been updated ever. It ain’t perfect but it’s predictable.)

Now to catch Toyota

Kids get public transport, education, and sometimes even food

Old folks get walkable communities

College kids (at great expense) also do

The revealed preference is that we could have an excellent quality of life except for voters hating 18-65 year old adults

“American public transport”

Good joke! Best joke I heard since “American democracy”!

alias scr=screen -dRU

I don’t know why Screen has any other flags. I do not want to bother learning the keyboard shortcuts for tmux even though its probably works better

Can’t believe I used up all my luck for that

Yeah. Horse nomads for Pritzker

Computer what is “Over-fitting”

Cost of living in my neighborhood is ballpark $3,000 per month I think. That’s just the essentials like mortgage, utilities, medical insurance, and then paying for medication and copays and shit that isn’t covered anyway.

Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone…

Most people don’t use computers :(

I think the number of computer users stayed about the same, and the biggest Eternal September wave has seen at least 10x as many people getting online phone-only

🍴

I can hardly wait 🫷

Mutilated? Mutant?

Just a little nitpick: could I persuade you to consider a color scale that goes from light to dark luminance like viridis? https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/intro-to-viridis.html

The heck is Rumble lol

Maybe it’s because typing “make something cool plz” and getting a picture back is finally an interface that C-levels can use

Moot! Those ALL fail code review!